Vampire Devil
P.O.V. Narrator
After the events of the last chapter, our protagonist found himself walking through the desolate streets of the city, looking somewhat startled at the destruction around him.
(Is this what I need to fix?) - He thought to himself.
With a sigh, he tried to figure out what to do next.
"First off... find a place to stay. Can't risk kicking the bucket right off the bat. Then, think of some useful attack skill besides super strength. Third, I need to make some cash, and fourth... pretend I'm dead." - He mused aloud, but realized he couldn't keep doing that as he had walked enough to leave the trail of destruction and there were people on the streets.
(And also... I need to get rid of Japanese citizenship. If someone attacks that wench Makima, I might be the lucky one chosen to receive the blow.) - He thought with disdain, never liking Makima and finding her a mediocre character who barely fulfills her role; yes, she's manipulative, yes, she's a villain, but she's just plain annoying.
(Well, I'll think about some skills useful beyond combat on the way, and I guess night vision is a good option.) - He thought while absentmindedly looking at the city lights and the darkness of the sky.
He wandered aimlessly for quite some time until he stopped at a bus stop bench, even though he didn't plan on taking any buses. By this point, he had already enhanced his hearing, making him more sensitive to sounds that normal human ears couldn't pick up, modified his eye to have a light refraction similar to that of a cat, enabling him to see in the dark, and increased the sensitivity of his olfactory nerve.
(At this point, the city is already a chaos to me. The enhanced senses I have now are good enough.)
He closed his eyes, wanting to rest from all that he was experiencing for at least a few minutes.
But then he had an idea, an idea that could truly be useful in the future.
However, before he could execute it... he heard something. An explosion in the distance, and then he opened his eyes as if bullets were being fired from a gun.
He quickly got up and looked around, realizing that the explosion had actually been further away than where he was.
He needed to adapt to his new senses, but apparently, he didn't have time for that anymore.
"Urgh, well... I need to help the human race. So... this is a start." - Without further thought, he began to run towards the location, soon realizing it would take him quite some time to get there.
(I need a skill to be faster, what do I pick...?) - Revisiting his memories, he decides to try to get Airbending from Avatar. - (I need to know the process, but I don't remember if it was well explained in the series. I know it has to do with inheriting the bending in the soul and using internal energy to control, like all the bendings... Well, attempt one to create it, here we go.)
{Ability |Airbending| not understood, please try again.}
(I don't have time for this! Urgh, I'm pretty sure that's it, there must be some small detail I'm missing!) - He gives up on this ability for now and tries to remember another one that could provide him with greater speed - (Maybe Airjitzu!)
Then, he tries to recall as much as possible of the technique created by Master Yang and later used by the Ninjas of Ninjago, to understand it and be able to create the ability to use it.
(It involved channeling their innate energies while spinning rapidly, and thus, creating a vortex of air that generated a bubble.) - He summarizes to himself, trying to verify if there was anything else, but as far as he remembers, there isn't, and he decides to try to create the ability.
{Ability |Airjitzu Style| created}
Like visions from a distant place, or faint memories of a dream, the instructions on how to use and the techniques of the style began to enter Denji's mind little by little, and this gave him a precise insight to use at the moment.
As he ran, he spun as fast as he could on the tips of his toes, while channeling his newly discovered innate energy, and as a chain reaction, a vortex of air formed around him, and then, he managed to float within a transparent bubble larger than himself.
"Okay... it's time to go!" - He says to himself, and moving within the bubble, he begins to head towards the explosion quickly.
(I wonder what caused it... or rather, what kind of demon caused it. Honestly, it doesn't matter, I need battle experience.)
Small Timeskip
Denji could see a trail of fire in the streets, while people screamed and apparent chaos ensued in the area.
(Okay... I think I can handle this.) - He observes a silhouette strangling a woman, which makes him furrow his eyebrows.
Deactivating the Airjitzu bubble at a safe distance, he begins to descend towards the figure with a prepared two-footed kick, his super strength activated as a trail of wind formed due to the speed at which he was going.
And then, he hit the devil strangling the woman right in the head, with enough force to kill a human. The creature went flying and crashed through various debris and rubble.
"Are you okay?" - He asked the woman, with a concerned look on his face.
"Y-yes!" - She says, frightened. Denji could see that she was pale, and also, dehydrated, as if her blood had been sucked out of her body.
He could observe that she was a beautiful woman, already of age, approximately 32 years old.
"Look, go to a safe place, quickly!" - He shouted, and the woman simply obeyed, running for her life.
"Nice move, BUT IT'S USELESS! You might think that I, as a demon, would need blood to regenerate, but the truth is I don't! That being said, human, answer me: What is man?"
The demon was feminine, a slender Western girl with a curvaceous figure, black hair like obsidian, and dull, almost white eyes. She wore clothes made of faces, which seemed to scream in agony. Her cloak was long and made of human hair. She wore a smug smile on her face.
(What the hell is this? It's a fusion of Dio and Dracula, but in a female version? Dio's arrogance, the "MUDA!" and even the similar monologues, and then throws in a gamer reference. I don't need to be a genius to know it's a vampire...)
"Let me guess, the answer is 'a miserable little pile of secrets'?" - He said amused, with a raised eyebrow in sarcasm, while crossing his arms.
"How... Do you have a contract with the demon of the future? No, it doesn't seem like it. Ah, screw it! Come at me!"
Without further words, the vampire demon lunged at Denji with one hand extended for his neck, her sharp claws thirsty to cut his throat.
Too bad the impetus of the impure being was stopped by the young blonde with a kick while using a bit of "Spinjitzu," almost like an emulated version, essentially halting the Airjitzu midway for this blow.
The creature was thrown back with part of her head sunk, which was already returning to normal, and without delay, she leaped towards Denji with a well-executed jump and a clenched fist for a punch... Or several.
"It's useless. USELESS. USELESS, USELESS, USELESS, USELESS!" - She tries to deliver several punches in succession to the blonde, who easily dodges some while spinning his body, but his opponent was relentless and was starting to get used to it.
[Nerd curiosity (too bad I can't use the emoji): If you didn't notice, they're in Japan, so Denji isn't hearing "useless" but "muda."]1
Until finally, a punch hits his jaw and sends him flying, but with a spin he stops in midair and, inhaling air, begins to regenerate his jaw. Denji realizes he was faster this time, which means it was possible to train this organ for more regeneration.
Getting into a fighting stance, Denji surveyed the battlefield around him and had an idea.
Juggling some rocks, he lifted them into the air and spun using that same emulated version of Spinjitzu, thus sending the projectiles like bullets towards the vampire.
She didn't expect such a move and was hit by some of the rocks, becoming a little dizzy, which gave Denji the perfect opportunity to attack.
This time, he would try something different; spinning his leg, he created a tiny tornado under himself, with no control whatsoever and very poorly done, but it didn't matter. Immediately after, he used it as momentum to go towards his opponent, already with a punch reinforced with super strength aimed at her nose.
A cracking sound is heard, her opponent's nose had shattered into pieces. However, before she could react, she received another punch, this time in the stomach, and then a sequence began.
"ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA, ORA… ORAAAAAAAAA!!!" - Several blows were delivered across the opponent's body, with various organs crushed. Then, the final attack smashes the demon to the ground, creating a small crater.
The fight so far had helped a lot with the experience he needed, and he had already noticed some mistakes he needed to correct for the next fight, so to finish it off, he observed the body regenerate and waited.
"I told you, IT'S USELESS!" - Said the vampire, something he already expected, so as a final act, the blonde starts to act a little.
Jumping back, Denji decides to pant, pretending to be tired, since now it was almost impossible for him to get tired with his ability to create whatever his body needed to stay alive.
"Damn it! If you're really the vampire demon, does that mean you'll die just from sunlight?" - He asks, trying to confirm a theory in his mind, taking advantage of the natural arrogance of demons to have some certainty that he would be answered.
"Exactly, you idiot! No matter how much you hurt me, I will be absolutely immortal as long as the night lasts, whereas you will only get more tired and weakened over time, and I will be happy to suck every last drop of blood from your body."
"If you die from sunlight, then wouldn't you die from moonlight? Because like, it's the sunlight reflected on it that makes the moon 'have light'." - He says, dropping the fighting pose for a moment to assume an explanatory pose, and as soon as he looks up he sees the vampire with a dumbfounded expression and slowly having her body disintegrated into dust.
"YOU DAMNED! YOU GAVE ME A HUMILIATING DEATH-" - She can't finish her sentence as her head has turned into powder.
Denji couldn't help but look at the scene with a hilarious look and holding back laughter, only to then make a sarcastic comment.
"Interesting, they only burn if they remember they burn, it must be a danger for a vampire with Alzheimer's. Pfft... It was funnier in my mind" - Loses his good humor in seconds upon realizing the joke was lame.
"Well... Then I guess I'll be going." - He activated his Airjitzu, spinning at high speed to create a vortex and fly away.
He disappeared into the night sky. That city for a long time would not know who its mysterious savior was, but they created a legend... the legend of a patron with golden hair, who with the ability to manipulate the wind, hunted demons and purged them from the face of the Earth.
The most I have to say about this legend?
What an exaggeration.